API Keys

Daytona API keys are used to authenticate requests to the Daytona API.

The Configuration page covers how to set up your environment variables, including the DAYTONA_API_KEY environment variable.

To list existing API Keys go to the Keys subpage in the Dashboard. Clicking on Create Key will show a modal for creating and copying a new key to your clipboard.

Expiration

When creating a new API Key you can optionally set an expiration date for the key. If no expiration date is set, the key will never expire.

Permissions

When adding a new API Key you will be prompted to select a set of permissions for the key:

Permission	Description
Sandboxes	Grants the ability to create and manage Sandboxes
Snapshots	Grants the ability to create and manage Snapshots
Registries	Grants the ability to create and manage Registries

Each of these permissions have scopes for creating and updating resources (e.g. write:sandboxes) and delete resources (e.g. delete:sandboxes) that can be separately granted.